Legerdemain: or, natural and artificial conclusions and hocus-pocus improved / [Anon].

  • Hill, Thomas, approximately 1528-
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[1716?]
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Legerdemain: or, natural and artificial conclusions and hocus-pocus improved / [Anon]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Briefe and pleasaunt treatise. English

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London : W. Gwilling, [1716?]

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72 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; (12mo)

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Reprint of an ed. printed at London by G. Conyers, ca. 1710. Cf. T. H. Hall. Old conjuring books, 1972, p. 201
The earliest extant ed. of the original text was published in 1581 under title: A briefe and pleasaunt treatise, entituled, Naturall and artificiall conclusions.
Copy 1 Note: Described as 'Hill's Legerdemain' on t.p. of John White's 'Hocus pocus' [1716?] Watt attributes the work to Thomas Hill, distinguishing his from the 16th-cent. writer of the same name--correctly, as the compiler mentions the date 1716 on p. 64.

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